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Peace Without Poison

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was followed by France-Albert René (1977-2004) and the incumbent James Michel (since April2004). Through their combined efforts, these sons of Seychelles managed to reduce theirpeople’s fertility from 4.2 to 1.9 children per woman. And like their colonial predecessors theyto performed this demographic miracle without any contraceptives.Seychelles is concealing its contraceptive prevalence rate because it is insignificant. Abortion isa factor at 24% (as of 2006) but cannot possibly account for the low fertility now or for thedecline in fertility in the past. The historical record shows that abortion has been constant at24% since 1998.Seychelles has been rewarded for its war on fertility with a growing per capita GDP. The datashows that the GDP began to rise in the early 1970s, thus soon after fertility began declining inthe late 1960s.Seychelles is stage four of the demographic transition.733 | P a g e

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